The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a major case that invalidates patents on two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. The case was brought by Professor Dan Ravicher of Cardozo School of Law, along with the ACLU.

Deborah Pearlstein, a former White House official and international law professor at Yeshiva University, said it's likely the next administration will use Obama's framework as its starting point. "By practice and long history, those opinions tend to stand," she said.

"People's concern and fear is reasonable, but if this man has an ounce of political sense, and that's a big if, then going after this most sympathetic group of immigrants who were brought here as children through no volition of their own, who have been productive members of society, simply should not be a priority," said Markowitz.

In 2012, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched a program giving more than 700,000 minors who entered the country without U.S. documentation exemption from deportation. To apply for the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), young people turned over identifying information – names, addresses and more.

November 16, 2016 - Professor Gabor Rona told the AP in an article published in the Washington Post that Saudi Arabia has committed war crimes in its nearly 2-year-old air campaign against Yemen's Shiite rebels, known as Houthis. "The Saudis have been committing war crimes in Yemen," he told the AP. He also warned that American personnel helping the coalition "may also be guilty of war crimes." According to the article, rights groups and U.N.